Geomaker: automatic microformats and maps... (Service to watch
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GeoMaker creates microformats and maps from geographical information embedded in texts. You can either provide a URL to load and hit the "load content" button or start typing your own text and hit the "get locations" button to continue.
>>> http://icant.co.uk/geomaker/index.php
>>> http://blog.programmableweb.com/2009/07/03/yahoos-placemaker-yields-the-geomaker-project/
NO tradevibes entry >>> http://www.tradevibes.com/
NO crunchbase entry>>> http://www.crunchbase.com/
NO wikipedia entry >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/
A microformat is a web-based[1] approach to semantic markup that seeks to re-use existing XHTML and HTML tags to convey metadata[2] and other attributes. This approach allows information intended for end-users (such as contact information, geographic coordinates, calendar events, and the like) to also be automatically processed by software.
Although the content of web pages is technically already capable of "automated processing", and has been since the inception of the web, such processing is difficult because the traditional markup tags used to display information on the web do not describe what the information means.[3] Microformats are intended to bridge this gap by attaching semantics, and thereby obviate other, more complicated methods of automated processing, such as natural language processing or screen scraping. The use, adoption and processing of microformats enables data items to be indexed, searched for, saved or cross-referenced, so that information can be reused or combined.[3]
Current microformats allow the encoding and extraction of events, contact information, social relationships and so on. More are being developed. Version 3 of the Firefox browser,[4] as well as version 8 of Internet Explorer[5] are expected to include native support for microformats.
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microformat
The official microformats site. Contains the development wiki, mailing-list information and scripts to create the major microformats.
>>> http://microformats.org/
